Celebrating Our 25Th Anniversary in 2016
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DIFF A ER G E IN N K C A E M DIFF A ER G E IN N K C A E www.ecu25.com.au M CELEBRATING OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2016 All information is correct as of the date of print. Vice-Chancellor‘s Message 25 Interesting Facts It is my great pleasure to invite you to join us in celebrating Edith Cowan University’s 25th anniversary in 2016. About ECU In just two and a half decades, ECU has rapidly developed into a modern university that focuses on both research excellence and quality teaching. Established in 1991, this University has taken the opportunity to reshape the way higher education is delivered in a distinctive and inspiring campus environment. 1 Alternative name suggestions for ECU included The ECU Joondalup Pines outdoor cinema 18 On Australia Day in 2009, ECU’s Joondalup the University of Perth and O’Connor University. opened its doors in 1998 on the site of a former Campus hosted the nation’s then largest It’s an approach that has been rewarded with a fi ve-star rating for teaching quality 10 pine plantation at the Joondalup Campus. ever citizenship ceremony, with 1881 over the past seven years in the Good Universities Guide. people from 90 countries. ECU is the only Australian university to be named We are also proud to be named in the Times Higher Education 100 Under 50, 2 after a woman and one of just a handful worldwide. 11 Outside the Kurongkurl Katitjin Building on the Mount Lawley Campus, gardens As part of ECU’s Reconciliation Action Plan, a global ranking of the best universities under the age of 50 years. have been designed to represent the six the first cultural reflection space opened on 3 ECU offers more than 300 courses across Nyoongar seasons, with each coming into 19 the Joondalup Campus in 2014. To mark ECU’s 25th anniversary we have a great calendar of events planned for 2016, Health & Medical Sciences, Engineering, bloom at different times of year. including internationally-renowned speakers, campus activations, a year-long light show Education, Arts and Humanities, Business and and numerous events to recognise our students, staff , alumni and community members. Law, Nursing and Midwifery, Science and the 20 At the Genesis Care cancer clinic, cancer Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Professor Ralph Martins was named Western patients can see both their oncologist and Read on for more information and visit www.ecu25.com.au to stay up to date. Australian of the Year in 2010. His research exercise physiologist under one roof. Thanks to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s includes to ECU’s Exercise Medicine Research Institute, Professor Steve Chapman Graduates from ECU’s Western Australian 12 investigating the use of curcumin, the active patients are prescribed tailored exercise Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) include agent in the spice turmeric. programs as part of their cancer treatment. ECU Vice-Chancellor 4 Hugh Jackman, Frances O’Connor, Tim Minchin, Lisa McCune and Lucy Durack. 13 The Joondalup Library and ICT Building have ECU’s newest building, Ngoolark, is named won a number of awards including the Royal after the Carnaby’s cockatoo. The patterns 5 The South West Campus in Bunbury is the Australian Institute of Architects (WA) Best 21 on the building’s gold exterior represent the largest WA university campus outside the Building and the Royal Institute of British chest feather patterns of the native bird. metropolitan area. Architects International Award. 22 In 1991, the ECU library had more than ECU is named in the Times Higher Education’s ECU journalism and broadcasting students 442,000 print books. In 2016, it has Top 200 list of the most international have won national awards every year since 371,000 print books and 242,000 eBooks. universities in the world. ECU is home to 14 2006 when they first entered the Journalism more than 4300 international students Education Research Association awards. 6 from more than 100 countries. It also has More than 68,000 students have graduated overseas exchange agreements with over from ECU since 1991. 100 institutions in more than 35 countries. 15 Honorary Research Fellow Dr David Goodall 23 is Australia’s oldest working scientist. He was born in 1914. 24 The Bachelor of Science (Sports Science 7 ECU was the first university in Australia to and Football) degree is the only course install sleep pods. of its kind in Australia. Students specialise ECU is home to the only experimental in either soccer or AFL, gaining skills for a malting facility in the southern hemisphere, career in sports management, administration, ECU launched its first website in 1996. It featured 16 researching disease resistant, higher quality coaching or performance analysis. 8 text links and a university logo but no images. barley strains – leading to better beer! Honorary ECU award recipients include 9 Edith Cowan’s family home was saved from 17 Education students utilise high-tech video Hollywood cinematographer Don McAlpine, demolition and relocated from its site in classrooms at Ashdale Secondary College to Olympian Shirley de la Hunty AO MBE, singer West Perth to the Joondalup Campus in 1996. observe lessons and record and analyse their 25 Slim Dusty AO MBE and businesswoman The cottage now houses the Peter Cowan own performance in the classroom. Janet Holmes à Court AC. Writers’ Centre. 2 3 Vice-Chancellor‘s Message 25 Interesting Facts It is my great pleasure to invite you to join us in celebrating Edith Cowan University’s 25th anniversary in 2016. About ECU In just two and a half decades, ECU has rapidly developed into a modern university that focuses on both research excellence and quality teaching. Established in 1991, this University has taken the opportunity to reshape the way higher education is delivered in a distinctive and inspiring campus environment. 1 Alternative name suggestions for ECU included The ECU Joondalup Pines outdoor cinema 18 On Australia Day in 2009, ECU’s Joondalup the University of Perth and O’Connor University. opened its doors in 1998 on the site of a former Campus hosted the nation’s then largest It’s an approach that has been rewarded with a fi ve-star rating for teaching quality 10 pine plantation at the Joondalup Campus. ever citizenship ceremony, with 1881 over the past seven years in the Good Universities Guide. people from 90 countries. ECU is the only Australian university to be named We are also proud to be named in the Times Higher Education 100 Under 50, 2 after a woman and one of just a handful worldwide. 11 Outside the Kurongkurl Katitjin Building on the Mount Lawley Campus, gardens As part of ECU’s Reconciliation Action Plan, a global ranking of the best universities under the age of 50 years. have been designed to represent the six the first cultural reflection space opened on 3 ECU offers more than 300 courses across Nyoongar seasons, with each coming into 19 the Joondalup Campus in 2014. To mark ECU’s 25th anniversary we have a great calendar of events planned for 2016, Health & Medical Sciences, Engineering, bloom at different times of year. including internationally-renowned speakers, campus activations, a year-long light show Education, Arts and Humanities, Business and and numerous events to recognise our students, staff , alumni and community members. Law, Nursing and Midwifery, Science and the 20 At the Genesis Care cancer clinic, cancer Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Professor Ralph Martins was named Western patients can see both their oncologist and Read on for more information and visit www.ecu25.com.au to stay up to date. Australian of the Year in 2010. His research exercise physiologist under one roof. Thanks to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s includes to ECU’s Exercise Medicine Research Institute, Professor Steve Chapman Graduates from ECU’s Western Australian 12 investigating the use of curcumin, the active patients are prescribed tailored exercise Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) include agent in the spice turmeric. programs as part of their cancer treatment. ECU Vice-Chancellor 4 Hugh Jackman, Frances O’Connor, Tim Minchin, Lisa McCune and Lucy Durack. 13 The Joondalup Library and ICT Building have ECU’s newest building, Ngoolark, is named won a number of awards including the Royal after the Carnaby’s cockatoo. The patterns 5 The South West Campus in Bunbury is the Australian Institute of Architects (WA) Best 21 on the building’s gold exterior represent the largest WA university campus outside the Building and the Royal Institute of British chest feather patterns of the native bird. metropolitan area. Architects International Award. 22 In 1991, the ECU library had more than ECU is named in the Times Higher Education’s ECU journalism and broadcasting students 442,000 print books. In 2016, it has Top 200 list of the most international have won national awards every year since 371,000 print books and 242,000 eBooks. universities in the world. ECU is home to 14 2006 when they first entered the Journalism more than 4300 international students Education Research Association awards. 6 from more than 100 countries. It also has More than 68,000 students have graduated overseas exchange agreements with over from ECU since 1991. 100 institutions in more than 35 countries. 15 Honorary Research Fellow Dr David Goodall 23 is Australia’s oldest working scientist. He was born in 1914. 24 The Bachelor of Science (Sports Science 7 ECU was the first university in Australia to and Football) degree is the only course install sleep pods. of its kind in Australia. Students specialise ECU is home to the only experimental in either soccer or AFL, gaining skills for a malting facility in the southern hemisphere, career in sports management, administration, ECU launched its first website in 1996.